What to prepare before commissioning a website

Start with the objective

Will the website introduce your business, receive enquiries, showcase work or sell products? The objective determines the pages and functions you need.

Gather existing material

Collect your company introduction, service descriptions, portfolio images, contact details and identity files. Separate ready-to-use material from content that still needs writing or photography.

Describe the important journeys

Explain what a visitor should do: read a service, explore a project and submit an enquiry. Include any accounts, permissions or external integrations.

Ask about handover and operation

Clarify domain, hosting and account ownership, content editing, backups, support and the limits of revisions.

Compare scope before price

Compare the page list, integrations, languages, deliverables and approval stages. A lower total is not comparable if it omits part of the work.